Exo 32:1, 8, 23, 34:17, Lev 19:4, 26:1, Deu 4:15-19, 23-25, 5:8, 27:15 | ESV | STEP | When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain , the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, Up , make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses , the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt , we do not know what has become of him.

Exodus 32:1

The Golden Calf

1 When the people saw that Moses ^adelayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, ^b“Up, make us gods who shall ^cgo before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”

Exodus 32:8

8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way that ^dI commanded them. They have made for themselves a golden calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’”

Exodus 32:23

23 For ^ethey said to me, ‘Make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’

Exodus 34:17

17 ^f“You shall not make for yourself any gods of cast metal.

Leviticus 19:4

4 ^gDo not turn to idols ^hor make for yourselves any gods of cast metal: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 26:1

Blessings for Obedience

1 “You shall not make ⁱidols for yourselves or erect an ^jimage or ^kpillar, and you shall not set up a ^lfigured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 4:15-19

Idolatry Forbidden

15 ^m“Therefore watch yourselves very carefully. Since ⁿyou saw no form on the day that the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire, 16 beware ^olest you act corruptly ^pby making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, ^qthe likeness of male or female, 17 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air, 18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth. 19 And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see ^rthe sun and the moon and the stars, ^sall the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.

Deuteronomy 4:23-25

23 ^tTake care, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you, and ^umake a carved image, the form of anything that the Lord your God has forbidden you. 24 For ^vthe Lord your God is a consuming fire, ^wa jealous God.

25 “When you father children and children’s children, and have grown old in the land, ^xif you act corruptly by making a carved image in the form of anything, and ^yby doing what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, so as to provoke him to anger,

Deuteronomy 5:8

8 “‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

Deuteronomy 27:15

15 ^z“‘Cursed be the man who makes a carved or cast metal image, an abomination to the Lord, a thing made by the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ ^aaAnd all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’